"
"Well, there isn't, so there's no use wishing. After all, I believe my
plan is practicable. Of course you are young in years, but you've had
any amount of experience; then you would only take women and children,
and they'd be easy with you." (O confiding Miss Prue!) "I believe I'd
try it, really."
If "in a multitude of counsellors there is safety," there is often also
confusion, as poor Job had occasion to experience; and Sara felt that
the more she talked about her future, the less she knew what disposition
to make of it. Finally she abandoned the subject with something like
despair, and asked a question in regard to the neighborhood, which made
Miss Prue say quickly, "Oh! that reminds me, Sara, I want you to be sure
to go to Betty's quilting-bee; you will, won't you?"
"O Miss Prue! must I? You know I never liked those bees, and now"--
"Yes, I understand all that, still I want you to go. I have reasons. You
are a King's daughter; make it one of your acts of self-denial."
Sara laughed.
"That seems odd enough, mayn't I ask your reasons?"
"No; well, yes, I believe I will tell you after all. I heard two of the
girls talking about you the other day, never mind who, and I didn't like
what they said. The fact is, Sara, they think you feel above them.
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